"One can always make stats go up. Hard work.
Foresight. Initiative. One can always make stats go up.
That's the truth of it, and it needs no explanations."

HCOPL 8 FEB 1968 ISS 2
Statistic Rationalization
(OEC Vol 0, p. 682)

In short, under current management, the single most important statistic in Scientology has been at or near its all-time low for over 2 decades, and there is no possible explanation, rationalization, or justification for it.